Father confronted by axe-wielding burglars

This is not my usual type of item, but it illustrates just how dependant on government people are these days. If this is the way Western society is moving, then there will be nothing to stop the Islamification that is coming like a freight train. This is what can be expected when citizens allow their government to disarm them. These folks are fortunate that the home invaders were only looking for property to steal.

FROM THE DAILYMAIL.CO.UK:

Father confronted by axe-wielding burglars - but police are too busy to turn up for THREE hours
By DAVID WILKES -
Hiding upstairs with his terrified partner and their two young children as a gang of axe-wielding burglars emptied his living room, Mathew Sims wasted no time in making a desperate 999 call to police.
But instead of the immediate response he expected, he was flabbergasted to be told: 'We're too busy to help.'
Within minutes the ruthless burglars were speeding from the scene in two cars with their haul of stolen property.

But it was three hours before officers finally turned up at the family's home in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, and by then all they could do was take statements.
Yesterday the force apologised for the appalling delay and an investigation was underway into the lack of response.
Furious Mr Sims, 24, who lives a mile from the nearest police station, said: "I told the police I could have had my head cut off - but still no-one came.
"We need to feel safe in our home. It was a really, really bad experience that you never think will happen to you. We couldn't sleep afterwards, it took a couple of days to feel okay."
His partner Sarah Barham, 24, said: "It's absolutely ridiculous that no-one came. They should have responded and made us a priority, not turn up three hours later.
"I'm just left thinking: 'Why us?' I'm scared to go to the shops on my own now. I keep thinking what would have happened if Mat hadn't been here."
Nottingham, having desperately tried to live down its image as Gun City, was recently named Britain's burglary capital.
It had house burglary levels which were 63 per cent above the national average, according to a league table compiled from insurance records of areas where a homeowner is most likely to suffer the misery of a break-in.
The burglars struck at Mr Sims' home on April 22. The ordeal began at around 11.15pm when he heard his dog barking and then noticed the light in his kitchen flicker on.
He pushed open the door and was horrified to find himself confronted by eight balaclava-clad intruders, one of them brandishing an axe.
He immediately slammed the door shut again and was hit by flying glass as the lead raider swung the weapon at him, smashing the pane.
Mr Sims ran upstairs to Miss Barham and their children Lewis, six, and Macey, five, and shut them in a bedroom and held the door shut as the burglars helped themselves.

He said: "Thankfully, the men didn't come upstairs, but I was worried about my children's safety.
"The minute we knew these people were in the house we rang the police, but they said it would be at least half an hour before they could come out."
The burglars escaped with items including a PlayStation 3, a sat-nav, a wireless internet router, mobile phones and Miss Barham's bag, keys and bank cards.
Mr Sims said: "No-one from the police had turned up half an hour later, and when we rang again they said there was no-one they could send.
"They said officers around the area were looking for the cars we had described and anyone suspicious, but we didn't see one police car come past.
"Then we had a call to say no-one could come out to see us that night and we should get our heads down and someone would be there in the morning.
"We were kicking up a fuss, asking why no-one could come when we had had people in our house. I ended up putting the phone down in frustration."
Finally, at 2.30am officers arrived at the house to take brief statements. The next day the couple got a call from Chief Inspector Andy Burton, head of Nottinghamshire police's Policy, Performance and Strategy within Demand Management department.
Jobless Mr Sims said: "He said he had been listening to the tapes of the call and was disgusted by how we didn't have an immediate response.
"We told him we were scared and worried. We have been left feeling that if something like this should happen again there could be another delay."
Yesterday Chief Inspector Burton said in a statement: "On this occasion the way control room staff dealt with this incident fell way short of the standard I expect.
"The force has apologised to the family by way of letter and I personally have contacted the family this morning.
"An investigation is being carried to find out why there was not an immediate response and any findings will be shared with the family."
Chief Inspector Burton has arranged to meet with the family later this week.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition

This is a story that the MSM will probably minimize because a courageous woman with a firearm stopped a lunatic from killing many people. There is relevance here to the Jihadi war against America. While this incident seems to be perpetrated by a deranged young man, we can expect individual attacks from home grown Jihadi.

It behooves everyone to be alert and not afraid to challenge odd behavior in public places. We cannot rely on law enforcement to protect us in our daily lives. Law enforcement is primarily reactive, not proactive. In other words, they usually show up after the shooting is over.

FROM JEWISHWORLDREVIEW.COM:

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
By Cal Thomas

I have been waiting for this to happen. For years we have witnessed the carnage when innocents were mowed down at schools, colleges, shopping malls and post offices. The unarmed (disarmed?) were easy targets for crazed gunmen armed with grievances, weapons and ammunition.

Now someone has shot back, probably saving many lives. All of the gun-control laws that have been passed and are still being contemplated could not have had the affect of one armed, trained and law-abiding citizen on the scene like 42-year-old Jeanne Assam, a volunteer security guard at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. The gunman, 24-year-old Mathew Murray, had been expelled from the Youth With a Mission (YWAM) organization for health reasons, according to officials. Authorities say Murray vowed revenge in several Web postings, which copied abundantly from the manifesto written by Columbine High School killer Eric Harris before the 1999 school massacre.

In rants laced with profanity, Murray lashed out against Christians he said had "brought this on yourselves." He wrote that Christians "are to blame for most of the problems in the world." Does that qualify as a "hate crime"? Probably not as such designations are usually given only to "oppressed minorities."

It is Assam and not the shooter who received — and deserves — most of the media attention and praise. Calm and collected at a news conference, Assam detailed her movements and decision-making after hearing shots in the parking lot outside the church. She was especially attentive to possible danger after learning of the earlier shooting during which two people were killed at the YWAM facility several miles away. After hearing shots in the church parking lot, Assam said she walked about 100 yards through a hallway, hid herself and when Murray walked in, emerged from hiding and confronted him. "I was just asking God, bottom line, this is all you," she said. "It was so loud. … It was scary. But God was with me. I asked him to be with me. And he never left my side."

Assam is a former Minneapolis police officer who is licensed to carry a concealed weapon. She said she had been praying about what to do with her life and had volunteered to help with security at the 10,000-member church. She said, "I wasn't going to wait for him to do other damage. I knew what I had to do."
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